Reynold is a co-founder of Databricks, where he has helped build multiple billion-dollar product lines.
Desjardins Speaker Series: How to Build a $100B Company, Brick by Brick
How to Build a $100B Company,
Brick by Brick
Join Reynold Xin, co-founder of Databricks, a San Francisco-based data and AI infrastructure startup valued at over $130B and one of the fastest growing tech startups in history. Reynold is a proud U of T alumnus (BASc in Engineering Science) who will share his story of a founding team that turned a research project into a business with a global footprint, over 8,000 employees and thousands of enterprise customers.
This signature event celebrating Toronto Tech Week will discuss:
- Origin story of the company and advice for young founders
- Trends, opportunities, and threats in the field of big data and artificial intelligence
- What Canadian business leaders, innovators, investors, and government need to do to compete
- Lessons learned from a life spent in Silicon Valley
- How to effectively commercialize research and what has changed since 2013 when Databricks was founded
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event ◷ May 26-29, 2026
Toronto Tech Week is back, bringing a weeklong collection of events across the city to connect and celebrate the tech community.
event ◷ Tuesday, May 26, 2026 | 11:30 am – 2:00 pm EST
Join your fellow innovators, founders, and curious minds for our interactive viewing party at the Schwartz Reisman Innovation Campus! Come for the live viewing of the Desjardins Speaker Series: How…